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Love is better than Fame.

Bayard Taylor

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Bayard Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1825
Born: January 11
Died: 1878
Died: December 19
Critic
Diplomat
Explorer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Politician
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Fame
Better
Love

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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.
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The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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The bravest are the most tender the loving are the daring.
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Love's humility is love's true pride.
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Alone each heart must cover up its dead Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful.
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The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.
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The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Peace the offspring is of Power.
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Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.
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Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
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Labor, you know, is prayer.
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